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THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>GENESIS</span>
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CHAPTER 34
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Shechem defiles Dinah—Hivites seek to arrange marriage with Jacob’s family—Many, being circumcised, are slain by Simeon and Levi—Jacob reproves them.
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And</span> Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
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And when Shechem the son of <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/34/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Judg. 9: 28.">Hamor</a> the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
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And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
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And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.
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And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.
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&#182; And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.
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And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard <i>it:</i> and the men were grieved, and they were very <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/34/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 49: 7.">wroth</a>, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
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And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.
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And make ye marriages with us, <i>and</i> give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
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And ye shall dwell with us: and the <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/34/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 20: 15.">land</a> shall be before you; dwell and <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/34/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="Mosiah 24: 7; 4 Ne. 1: 46; Ether 10: 22.">trade</a> ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
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And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.
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Ask me <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/34/12a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR ever so high a dowry.">never</a> so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
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And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
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<sup>a</sup><a href="gen/34/14a" mark="a" type="D" title="Septuagint: And Simeon and Levi, brothers of Dinah, sons of Leah, said  . . .">And</a> they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/34/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="Judg. 14: 3.">uncircumcised</a>; for that <i>were</i> a reproach unto us:
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But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we <i>be,</i> that every male of you be <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/34/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Circumcision.">circumcised</a>;
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Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
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But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
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And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor’s son.
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And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he <i>was</i> more honourable than all the house of his father.
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&#182; And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/34/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 23: 10.">gate</a> of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
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These men <i>are</i> peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, <i>it is</i> large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
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Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they <i>are</i> circumcised.
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<i>Shall</i> not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs <i>be</i> ours?  only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.
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And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.
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&#182; And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/34/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 49: 5 (5-7).">Simeon</a> and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
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And they <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/34/26a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 49: 6.">slew</a> Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went out.
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The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
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They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which <i>was</i> in the city, and that which <i>was</i> in the field,
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And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that <i>was</i> in the house.
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And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I <i>being</i> few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
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And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?
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